Date: 09 January 2001 From: McIDAS User Services To: McIDAS-XCD Site Coordinators Subject: Update: McIDAS-XCD addendum; NEXRAD data now available on NOAAPORT McIDAS-XCD Site Coordinators, The updated version of the 29 Dec 2000 McIDAS-XCD addendum (see messages below) is now available on the MUG Web Site. It contains the fixes to make the addendum function correctly on big endian machines. Therefore, all sites who want to decode, file and serve NEXRAD data received via NOAAPORT should install this addendum. Also, as you may know, until today the NOAAPORT datastream was carrying unencrypted NEXRAD data only for site ARX (La Crosse, WI). But as of 14 UTC this morning, the datastream began carrying unencrypted NEXRAD data for all radar sites. See the MUG Web Site's NEXRAD Data page (http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas/hot_topics/NEXRADTOP.html) for additional information, including the number of sites that the SSEC Data Center was receiving for each of the product types as of 17 UTC today. McIDAS User Services --------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 30 December 2000 From: McIDAS User Services To: McIDAS-XCD Site Coordinators Subject: McIDAS-XCD addendum; NEXRAD data now available on NOAAPORT McIDAS-XCD Site Coordinator, A new addendum, dated 29 Dec 2000, that contains the -XCD software and instructions needed to decode, file and serve NEXRAD data received via NOAAPORT is now available on the MUG Web Site (http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/mcidas/). You can find it under the "Addenda and Important Notices" on the McIDAS-XCD Software page. McIDAS User Services